Farm Bill Set to Be Brought Up in House During Lame Duck Session

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Beef, Cattle, Citrus, Corn, Cotton, Dairy, Energy, Field Crops, Florida, General, Georgia, Livestock, Nursery Crops, Peanuts, Pork, Poultry, Soybeans, Specialty Crops, Sugar, Vegetables

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has reportedly committed to holding a vote on the 2012 Farm Bill after the elections. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Senator Shares Origins of Florida Cattle Enhancement BoardNovember 14, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsNovember 8, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Plays Critical Role To Extend ResearchNovember 7, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Funded Research Impactful for the Future of …

Research Helping GA Growers Fight the Battle Against Pigweed

Randall Weiseman Cotton, Field Crops, Georgia

Glyphosate-resistant pigweed continues to be one of the major challenges facing cotton farmers, but Bulloch County grower and Georgia Cotton Commission Board Member, Lee Cromley says grower-funded research efforts are giving GA producers a fighting chance against the costly weed. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Senator Shares Origins of Florida Cattle Enhancement BoardNovember 14, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsNovember 8, 2025Florida Cattle …

Focus on the Tomato Focuses on Improving Traits for Taste

Randall Weiseman Florida, Specialty Crops, Vegetables

The latest Focus on the Tomato webcast is designed explain the components of tomato flavor along with some of the major constraints to improving it. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Senator Shares Origins of Florida Cattle Enhancement BoardNovember 14, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsNovember 8, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Plays Critical Role To Extend ResearchNovember 7, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Funded Research …

Irrigation Workshop Coming in Two Weeks

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Cotton, Field Crops, Florida, General, Georgia

Dr. Ed Barnes with Cotton Incorporated wants growers to know about an irrgation workshop that will be held November 9th at the end of the 2012 Crop Management Seminar in Tunica, Mississippi. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Senator Shares Origins of Florida Cattle Enhancement BoardNovember 14, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsNovember 8, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Plays Critical Role To Extend ResearchNovember …

Purple Potatoes Could Be Easy on the Eyes

Randall Weiseman Florida, Specialty Crops, Vegetables

USDA scientists have bred potatoes with higher levels of beneficial carotenoids that appear to protect against age-related macular degeneration and possibly against cataract formation in eyes. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Senator Shares Origins of Florida Cattle Enhancement BoardNovember 14, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsNovember 8, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Plays Critical Role To Extend ResearchNovember 7, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Funded …

Highlands Citrus Growers Focus on CHMAs for HLB Control

Ernie Neff Citrus, Florida

Highlands County Citrus Growers Association Executive Director Ray Royce says his members are coordinating their seasonal sprays for the control of HLB-spreading psyllids through participation in citrus health management areas (CHMAs). Royce also discusses his group’s major social and fundraising event, slated for December. Download Audio THANK YOU to our Citrus Crop Forecast Coverage Sponsors! Got Labor? Need Labor? Phone …

Weather Changes

Dan Agri View, Alabama, Beef, Cattle, Citrus, Corn, Cotton, Dairy, Equine, Field Crops, Florida, Forestry, General, Georgia, Livestock, Nursery Crops, Peanuts, Pork, Poultry, Soybeans, Specialty Crops, Sugar, Vegetables, Weather

Everett Griner talks about La Niña fading and El Niño growing and what this may mean for our weather pattern. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Senator Shares Origins of Florida Cattle Enhancement BoardNovember 14, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsNovember 8, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Plays Critical Role To Extend ResearchNovember 7, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Funded Research Impactful for the Future of …

BP Changes Ethanol Plans in Florida

Randall Weiseman Energy, Field Crops, Florida, General, Specialty Crops

FROM THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA: TALLAHASSEE, October 25, 2012……Plans for a 36-million gallon per year ethanol plant in Highlands County are being scrapped by BP Oil, which announced Thursday it will seek investment opportunities elsewhere. Sponsored ContentFlorida Senator Shares Origins of Florida Cattle Enhancement BoardNovember 14, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsNovember 8, 2025Florida Cattle Enhancement Board Plays Critical Role To …

Broker Shares Sales Prices of Central Ridge Citrus Groves

Ernie Neff Citrus, Florida

Richard Dempsey of Coldwell Banker Commercial Saunders Real Estate in this report discusses per-acre prices of citrus land sold on Florida’s Central Ridge in Highlands, Lake and Polk counties in recent months. Dempsey was one of several Saunders personnel Wednesday introducing the company’s new “Lay of the Land Market Report” based on actual sales prices. Download Audio THANK YOU to …

FL Farmers have Another Chance to Learn About USDA Claims Process

Randall Weiseman Florida, USDA-NRCS

Hispanic and women farmers and ranchers who believe they have been discriminated against by the USDA in past decades have another opportunity to find out more about the claims process. Florida NRCS State Conservationist Carlos Suarez says there are still some outreach meetings scheduled designed to explain what is involved in the filing process. Download Audio Sponsored ContentFlorida Senator Shares …